by Jessica Scott | Jan 4, 2010 | Iraq, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
In David Finkle’s The Good Soldiers, Finkle describes a ‘bad news bucket”, an emotional coping cache that, once filled, puts a soldier near the breaking point. According to Finkle, who heard of the idea from Gen Petraus (I believe) soldiers need good news in order to...
by Jessica Scott | Dec 12, 2009 | Iraq, moms at war, redeployment, Uncategorized, women at war
I’ve been home a few days now. I’ve been busy. Aside from the dead lizard in the bathroom, which I really enjoyed, I’ve been going non stop. Cleaning the house and getting things back to normal in my home is nearly a full time job. But I did take...
by Jessica Scott | Dec 11, 2009 | deployment, Fort Hood, Uncategorized, women at war
But right now, the rudeness and the refusal to recognize that soldiers are not just a uniform but a person by some of the people in the town and on the base I call home is disconcerting.